“Let’s go, move, move, move!” the commander said, and Yevgeny Makarov yelled in pain as two prison guards resumed beating his legs with batons while others held him down.
As the handcuffed, naked man lost consciousness, another guard poured water on his head from a light blue bucket to revive him. The cycle of thrashings continued for 10 minutes, recorded on a camera worn by one of his tormentors.
The video of Mr Makarov’s brutal beating, which took place in prison colony number one in Yaroslavl in June 2017, caused an international furore after footage was leaked to his lawyer and published last week.
Russian officials told the United Nations Committee Against Torture on Thursday that the…